Fast meals, fast trips, fast cures for headaches and colds, fast fixes for anything and everything.
Combine that group with the nation's dieters, also prone to weight gain through binge eating, and common explanations about the causes of obesity — the decline of the family meal, fast-food advertising, selling sodas in schools, a lack of exercise — begin to seem less obvious.
According to estimates from union groups, paying workers a living wage would raise the price of a burger or a bucket of chicken by a couple of cents per meal; fast-food chains say that they would have to increase prices far more than that.
Or how to make a meal faster.
They give you a chance to walk around and help pass the meal faster.
To the problems Mr. Moss's book describes, Mr. Pollan's book offers a solution: cooking, the way to avoid frozen meals, fast food and any other product developed in the name of convenience.
For customers to get their meals fast, whether sitting at a table or driving, the kitchen must be next to both the drive-through window and the cash registers inside.
Many items, from ready-to-roast marinated fresh salmon to freshly cooked turkey breast, make preparing healthful meals fast and relatively inexpensive.
This flood, in turn, drives down the prices of fattening fare such as prepackaged snacks, ready-to-eat meals, fast food, corn-fed beef and pork, and soft drinks.
